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When I'm Gone

A Rocket To The Moon

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

F#Diagram coming soon
BDiagram coming soon
C#Diagram coming soon
C×
EbmDiagram coming soon
AbmDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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F# 
The telephone is ringing in the afternoon 
                                   B 
I was talking to your mother--about you 
                          F# 
Yeah we were talking 'bout you 
 
She said you were in the garden where the sunshine blooms 
 
I can see you in the front lawn 
         B                     F# 
When I'm gone, my heart is with you 
              B                  C# 
And when I'm gone, my heart is with you 
B                                   C#                 C 
And I know, I know I'll always be thinking, thinking about 
B                            C# 
I hope you know I always call you my home 
 
B                C#          Ebm          Abm 
It don't matter where I'm going or what I do 
  B                  C#                   F# 
I always come back, I always come back to you 
B                 C#         Ebm                      Abm 
And I've got this funny feeling that I'll be seeing you soon 
  B                     C#               F# 
I always come home, I always come home to you 
 
F# 
I live by the freeway on a fabric bench 
 
I wonder when the next that time I'll be fed 
        B                  F# 
I'm fed up, I'm fed up with this 
 
You're probably sleeping in your plastic house 
 
I can see you in the front room 
 
          B                     F# 
When I'm gone, my heart is with you 
              B                    C# 
And when I'm gone, my heart is with you 
 B                               C#               C 
I know, I know I'll always be thinking, thinking about 
 B                           C# 
I hope you know I always call you my home 
 
B              C#             Ebm        Abm 
It don't matter where I'm going or what I do 
   B                 C#                 F# 
I always come back, I always come back to yo 
    B              C#          Ebm                   Abm 
And I've got this funny feeling that I'll be seeing you soon 
   B              C#                     F# 
I always come home, I always come home to you 
 
   B                               C#                    C 
And I know, I know I'll always be thinking, thinking about 
B                                 C# 
I hope you know I'll always call you my home 
 
 B               C#           Ebm        Abm 
It don't matter where I'm going or what I do 
 B                   C#                 F# 
I always come back, I always come back to you 
   B             C#           Ebm                    Abm 
And I've got this lovely feeling that I'll be seeing you soon 
   B                   C#                  F# 
'Cause I'm coming home, I'm coming home to you 
          
 

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Chord set

F# · B · C# · C · Ebm · Abm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.